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Jack Black and Tim Robbins team up for HBO dark comedy series

February 12, 2014 Dylan P. Gadino 0 Comments hbo, jack black, Jay Roach, tenacious d, The Brink, tim robbins

The friendship between Jack Black and Tim Robbins goes back a long way— further back, even, than the JB and Kyle Gass partnership that blossomed into Tenacious D. One of Black’s first showbiz jobs was in 1989 when he worked on Robbins’ religious satire Carnage in Edinburgh. And now the two will star alongside each other in The Brink, a dark comedy series for HBO. “Black plays Alex Coppins, a

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Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis poke fun at political process with 11-city promo tour

July 18, 2012 Samantha Simon 0 Comments Jay Roach, The Campaign, will ferrell, zach galifianakis

Yesterday Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell hit the dusty old campaign trail, kicking off an 11 city whistle-stop tour to promote Jay Roach’s upcoming comedy, The Campaign, in which both play bumbling political candidates in North Carolina. The two proceeded to broadcast their political agendas at The Grove in Los Angeles, in character, standing at podiums adorned with their character names’ Marty Huggins (Galifianakis) and Cam Brody (Ferrell). The Hollywood